The lyrics in All Black Everything shine with work and the freedom of young people. Full of menace and humor, objects of warfare and luxury consumption are transformed with Shane Book’s blade of caustic irony against the worldwide nihilism of cash payments, guns, and disease. In their syncopated, slangy, and musically enjambed flow of the digital world, a poet known for singular collections has produced his most inventive and uncompromising volume yet.The political sublime...

At once original, strange, funny, and unnerving, Shane Book’s Congotronic takes the reader into unstable territory, where multiple layers of voice, diction, and music collide. Some of these poems have the sparse directness of a kind of bleak prayer; others mingle the earthbound rhythms of hip-hop with the will-to-transcendence of high Romanticism.Harnessing techniques of the cinematic and audio arts, Book’s poems splice, sample, collage, and jump-cut language from an array...

It’s just Penn Newburgh and his digital camera, all alone and out in the woods. He’s on the trail of a cougar, the biggest cat in North America. He’s got fresh tracks, but what are the odds? And that ain’t the half of it, as there’s more than one kind of cougar. A short and romantic tale of adventure.

The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry from the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist.Each year, the best books of poetry published in Canada and internationally in English are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s richest literary awards. Since 2001, this annual prize has spurred interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the formidable talent of poets.

"Solarium is a completely original gem of a book."—Henri Cole, from the forewordBowl of the lake. Bowl of the sky.Bowl of the lake with the sky in it.You looked at you in the water.The blizzard is cold.And the boy in the blizzard is blue.Jordan Zandi grew up in the rural Midwest, and in 2011 graduated with an MFA in poetry from Boston University, where he was the recipient of a Robert Pinsky ...

This is a wide ranging collection of contemporary poetry. Some of the themes are ambitious, dealing with, in part, a grandfather's Holocaust, finding your longitude without a good watch, the melancholy of a generation, seventh grade science class, and falling off the edge of the earth with a Rabbi. Others are content with more circumscribed lives - first loves, botched loves, hearts living in gallon jars, a dog singing the blues, and the computations of an old calico. Wherever you enter th...

God Particles displays the distinctive originality and unpredictability that prompted the Washington Post Book World to name Lux one of this generation’s most gifted poets. A satiric edge, tempered by profound compassion, cuts through many of the poems in Lux’s book of imaginative verse. While themes of intolerance, inhumanity, loss, and a deep sense of mortality mark these poems about life and death, a lighthearted grace instills even the somberest moments with unexpected sweetness. In th...

From Epicurus to Sam Cooke, the Daily News to Roots, Digest draws from the present and the past to form an intellectual, American identity. In poems that forge their own styles and strategies, we experience dialogues between the written word and other art forms. Within this dialogue we hear Ben Jonson, we meet police K-9s, and we find children negotiating a sense of the world through a father’s eyes and through their own.

"I started writing poems when I was about 15 or 16 because that was my way of saying the things that I wanted to say and they stayed in books mostly. So this about 15 years of my head and my heart and what it thinks and what it doesn't get to say."This collection of over 30 poems is written by actor Duncan Pow. Best known as Linden Cullen in Holby City, Scottish born Duncan has a written a collection of Love poems for you to read and share.

"Saving Godzilla and the Other Dinosaurs" Written and Illustrated by Eve Hunt.As you will see, playtime for Edward and his friends was always fun and exciting. Although it was dangerous and off limits, the construction site promised even MORE fun and excitement. Deeply engaged during their playtime, the boys created live action between the Tyranasaurs Rex and the Dimorphodon. They were wild and imaginative while proving their knowledge about dinosaurs was nothing s...

There are many different kinds of horses in the world. Some are short. Some are huge. Some come in one color, and some come in many colors. But they are all beautiful.All horses have long, thin legs and a big round body. They have a long, curved neck and a big head with large eyes.Horses have been a help to man for thousands of years. In that time, we have changed the horse into the kind of animal we want it to be. Man has bred horses for many years.To breed a horse me...

This is a collection of intimate poems, originally titled My-ku. They were intended as a study in constrained free-verse associative thought, and of course they grew. Cycling, diving, life ... explored in four lines.These works were written between 2009 and 2012 in Victoria, B.C., Canada.